761: Shopping for Cash Flow: Buying an Online Business in 2026

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cash flow. Today, we're taking a live look at real online businesses you can buy, how much they're making, or how much they say they're making, how much they cost, and what might make a good deal for you. My guest has helped broker over 300 of these sales, totaling over $7 million in lifetime value. From JustWebsiteBrokerage.com, Joe Burrell. Welcome to the Side Hustle Show. Hello, Nick. Thank you for having me. You bet. So let's say I'm this person. I'm bought into the idea of let somebody else do the hard part, the getting noticed on the internet part, the getting the business off the ground, that zero to one phase. That's really difficult. And so if I want to skip that part, it's going to cost me some money because somebody's going to get paid for that effort. But where do I want to go to see what types of businesses are available for sale?

Right. Okay. So there are a few public marketplaces that you can go to, and we'll name a few of them as we go. But the one that we're going to look at most, it's the biggest, has the most listings on there, is Flippa.com.

Yeah, let's take a look if you are willing to share some of the listings that caught your eye.

Of course. Yeah. As you can see, most of these listings, you have to sign an NDA in order to get access to these.

What's your take on that? Is it worthwhile to, oh, that looks interesting to me. What would make it interesting enough to be, yeah, I'll go through the, jump through the hoops to sign an NDA.

Right. Yeah. So let's just click on one of these and you can take a look. So there is some information that you'll see for one of these businesses before you sign the NDA to get an idea on whether or not you're interested. And that basically will be enough to sort of go, okay, I'm interested. I want to sign. And that will get you access to a lot more information. So it's just that basic NDA and you would click the button and click sign. That's basically it. I don't want to spend too much time on that because what's more important is